Questions tagged [printing]
Questions regarding printing and how to set up printers.
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How do I disable automatic remote printer installation?
In Raring, everytime I connect to the network, Cups installs all the printers in the network automatically, some more than once.
Furthermore, I connect a USB printer to the laptop every now and then. ...
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How do I convert a PNG to PDF with only the default packages on 11.10?
Openning a png file in ubuntu, I can see the menu item for 'print to file'. How can I do the same on shell? PS: I prefer installing no extra package, due to lack of root access.
EDIT: the operating ...
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How do I clear a Print-queue in Ubuntu?
I am an absolute beginner with Ubuntu and I appear to have a long queue of documents in my H.P. 840C printer.
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How to install a "pdf printer"?
Is there a way to install a printer that prints to pdf?
There's a lot of discussions about this in the web foruns, but none seens to work.
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Remove 'printer added' notifications from GNOME 3
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.04, using the GNOME desktop. Suddenly, I've started seeing 'printer added' notifications as OSD popups - approximately every 2 minutes! It's really distracting.
Anyone ...
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How do you administer CUPS remotely using the web interface?
I have an Ubuntu server in my apartment and I just got a printer, so it's time to share!
In the past I've used CUPS on my Desktop and I'd just point the browsers to localhost:631 to set things up. ...
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Printing in booklet format
In the past I had a printer that had the booklet format option that would print the document two pages at a time ordered in a way that folding the whole printout would produce a booklet, half the size ...
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Should I set up my CUPS Printing to use IPP, LPD or URL?
When I got to add a network printer, I'm always confronted with the same dilemma:
Do I set up the printer via IPP, LPD, or using it's IP address (AppSocket/Jetdirect?) and why?
What are the ...
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How to list all available printers from terminal?
I need a command to list available printers in my Ubuntu.
The printers list could be installed or shared?
This list also should state the state of the printer .
Any Help to achieve my goal?
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Is there an easy way to view the print queue?
With the (apparent) loss of the print indicator in Natty, I'm having a little trouble keeping track of my print queue easily.
At the moment to bring up a print queue, I bring up the "Printing" ...
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How to install latest HPLIP on my Ubuntu to support my HP printer and/or scanner?
Let's assume that one has some modern HP printer and/or scanner which is not supported by HPLIP package from official repository.
Currently Ubuntu versions have the following versions in universe ...
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Printer in "pending" mode only, not printing
OS: Ubuntu 13
Printer: HP Deskjet 2540
Problem: Printer worked initially. Suddenly stopped working. Printer cue just says "pending" and printing never happens.
How do I get it to go from "pending" ...
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“No suitable Destination Host found by cups-browsed”
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.2 Desktop on my laptop.
I have installed CUPS to a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. My Mac will consistently print to this printer without any problems.
From Ubuntu Desktop I ...
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How do I add a network printer in Ubuntu 12.04?
I know the name and the IP address of a network printer, but I can't seem to be able to search by IP address or name.
Ubuntu developers love to move things around to make it difficult for users, so ...
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Printer problems after installing Ubuntu 20.04
After installing 20.04 on my desktop, my printer has stopped working.
Printer: HP Envy 5640, connected via USB.
hplip installed.
cups installed.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Printer itself is OK as ...
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Printing a poster (over several sheets of paper)
I have a poster I would like to print. It is far larger than a single sheet of paper that can fit in my printer. What is a program that I can use to print it out on separate sheets of paper (to ...
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What is the best printer for Ubuntu? [closed]
I want to buy a cheap printer to use with my Ubuntu laptop. It is ok if the printer would be black and white. The main thing I want is a plug and play feature - no specific drivers, no set ups and etc....
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Print from command line
How can I print the command line output directly to the printer.
I am using ubuntu server 12.04 and I have to copy files into a shared directory and then download them from a desktop ubuntu ...
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How can I print-screen just one window and not my entire desktop?
I could swear I've always been able to do Alt+Print Screen to get 'just that window' but right now I am getting my entire desktop.
Any idea why this would be or what I can do to get my ability to do ...
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How to add a printer in gnome-shell
I'm using Gnome Shell (although I'm not sure whether the "Printers" app is part of that or just part of Gnome).
I go to "Printers" from the overview, click the + button on the bottom left, choose ...
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How can I install a Canon printer or scanner driver?
I tried to install the MP190 drivers, but appeared a message show me that requires to have libcupsys2. I understand that libcup2 is an update of libcupsys2.
How do I solve this? Are there ...
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"Unauthorized" error when adding printers through CUPS using Google Chrome in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Update 2019-01-09: Please see answer below as there is a way to fix this with CUPS 2.2.8.
Update 2020-10-17: Upgrading from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 LTS will fix it as it upgrades the version of CUPS from ...
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How do I print an image over multiple pages? [duplicate]
I have a very tall image (880x9445 pixels) which I would like to print (specifically, to PDF).
But when I print the image it always comes out as one page; there does not seem to be any way to scale ...
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Printer "Filter failed"
Upgraded to 18.04 from 16.04. I have a workplace printer connected through appsocket which stopped working.
Printer status is Idle-Filter failed.
Printing queue instantly goes to "stopped".
Right ...
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How Do I Print Photos?
Other than for Windows in Ubuntu there are no fancy utilities provided from printer manufacturers to print photos. I am aware of Gnome Photo Printer and of Photoprint, the first being easy to handle, ...
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How can I easily set up a Google Cloud Print printer?
I have an HP Photosmart B210 this is a e-print printer capable of printing via wifi, I'm using this printer in Google cloud print, however there is a downside, the software that comes with it is only ...
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Share files and printer between two Ubuntu boxes
I have two Ubuntu boxes and want to share files and printer between them. I'm reading about Samba but I have a question: Is Samba only for sharing thing between Ubuntu and Windows? Another question: ...
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How do I get rid of a ghost printer in Gnome?
When I try to print from a Gnome application, the print dialog has non-functional printer listed. It is called "duerqxesz5090 -- Basement Utility Room -- Rejecting Jobs". Here is a screenshot of ...
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How do I remove hundreds of automatically added network printers?
It is very difficult for me to perform printing, because the printer dialogue is full of hundreds of automatically added printers, so I can't find the one I want to use, see screenshot below.
The ...
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What's the difference between LPR and cupswrapper drivers? How to install printer drivers?
I'm considering getting a Brother HL2230 printer. I can't find that printer listed in https://www.openprinting.org/printers
However there're a few HL2230 Linux drivers available in http://welcome....
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How do I get IP of installed network printer
I have installed a network printer in my Ubuntu 14.04 machine by using system-config-printer. This GUI program offers a "Find network printer" function, that explores the local network. It returns a ...
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How do I print to PDF from wine?
I am running MS Office under wine and would like to print PDF documents.
Installing the official extension via wine does nothing.
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How can I set 'Print to File' as my default printing option?
At the moment when I print, my Deskjet-3050 is selected as the default printer.
I would like 'Print to File' to be the default 'printer' without using cups-pdf
I specifically do not want to use cups-...
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Printing service not available
Sorry if this question looks familiar: I tried solutions proposed by google searches but they either are not working or are too technical for me.
I messed with cups a few days ago, I don't recall ...
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I get a CUPS Server error: 'server-error-internal-error' when I try to connect a network printer
I'm trying to add a new network printer on ubuntu 16.04 LTS. After setting it's IP address it recognises that a printer is available (192.168.1.100/9100), but when I click Forward I get a CUPS server ...
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Installing Epson Printer but Interrupted by lsb Dependency Error
I am installing the Epson XP-310 driver from this website.
When I attempt to install the downloaded .deb file, I get the following error:
The Package System is broken
epson-inkjet-printer-201303w:...
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Where can I find the default printing test page?
where can i find the default test page in ubuntu ?
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How do I export a chart in an image format from LibreOffice Calc?
I want to print some charts from LibreOffice Calc, is there a way to do this?
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Use different username on CUPS remote printing
I'm using CUPS to print on an enterprise network. The job gets submitted fine, but I need to submit it as another username. Now I'm jon but I need to send it as say jonallard.
On the command line, ...
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What's the difference between the various printer connections?
I'm installing a new printer and I'm given 4 connection options.
AppSocket/JetDirect network printer via DNS-SD
LPD network printer via DNS-SD
IPP network printer via DNS-SD
AppSocket/HP JetDirect
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HP LaserJet won't print (16.04 LTS)
I have a weird problem I cannot trace a cause to.
I successfully install HP LaserJet 1018, through Printers / Add Printer / (recognizes the USB connected printer) / select HP / Select driver / ...
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Disable CUPS and CUPS-BROWSED in 16.04
The accepted solutions in other questions, ie:
echo manual > /etc/init/cups.override
echo manual > /etc/init/cups-browsed.override
reboot
Don't work in 16.04. I don't wish to uninstall cups as ...
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change default printing settings
Is there any way to change the default printing settings in the dialog box?
For instance, I would like the paper format to be always A4. Now it always appears as US letter by default and I have to ...
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Finding device printer's device URI during driver installation
I'm trying to install a printer from Brother (model MFC-J470DW). I've been to Brother's site, downloaded and unzipped the *.gz driver file. Now it's asking if I want to specify the device URI.
Other ...
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Network printer found but cannot print
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop and try to use a network printer.
Adding the printer to Ubuntu works without problems but when I try to print something the print job stays in the queue and ...
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CUPS "client-error-not-possible"
I have a network printer and my machine recently stopped being able to print, other machines can print fine. Besides having to use root to change its settings, when I try to change its settings I get ...
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Brother HL-L2340DW printer
I've (perhaps unwisely, it seems) just bought a Brother HL-L2340DW printer and I'm struggling to get it working with Ubuntu.
I need to get it working wirelessly, but I can connect it by USB in order ...
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Can't get my Canon LBP printer to run under Ubuntu 14.04
I downloaded Linux CAPT driver V2.60 from Canon and installed both .deb packages, which were listed under the 64bit folder with Ubuntu Software-Center. My Canon printer still won't be recognized. Is ...
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How to print using only the color cartridge?
My printer ran out of black ink, but the color cartridge still has a lot of ink. I want to print using only ink from the color cartridge. I used to be able to do this using advanced printer settings ...
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How do I modify a printer's IP address in CUPS?
I have a network printer with a static IP address. Recently I've changed my subnet and had to allocate it a new static IP address.
I've tried to update CUPS with the new IP address by going to ...
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